When our cultural icons die

September 7, 2026
As I write this we’ve just lost both Dolly Parton and Gloria Steinem, two women who helped shape our generation. Why do I feel such grief? It hits differently when a cultural icon dies. The grief can seem strangely disproportionate to the relationship we actually had with them. We had...

What’s right and fair

October 7, 2014
I'm attached to what's right and fair. What's congruent. Oh, I know, there are so many parts of the world where things aren't right and fair. Where injustice...

The day I forgot my phone

October 6, 2014
I had taken just half a dozen steps into the Caltrain station when I realized that I'd left my cell phone at home. M had dropped me off and was on his way back home to...

Not a girl’s girl

October 5, 2014
"But you know, she's not a girl's girl, you know what I mean?" My friend was talking about someone we both know who had been particularly ungracious in a social...

A stroll through Ortygia

October 4, 2014
There's history and mystery in the narrow streets of Ortygia, the island that is the historical center of the city of Siracusa. What goes on behind those walls? And how...

Time travel, coincidence and science

October 3, 2014
  The forces that cause meaningful coincidence may be quite physical. We miss this because we cannot observe their workings with our ordinary senses and our...

Welcome to Sicily: where’s my luggage?

October 2, 2014
There was an argument before we left the US. Ok, well, maybe “argument” is too strong. But when we somehow ended up with less than an hour layover between landing...

What Fashion Week is really like

October 1, 2014
I am on vacation but posts will appear magically every day, by me or another cool blogger. If you love fashion,  you watch Project Runway. And probably covet a seat at...

Autumn meditation

September 30, 2014
I am on vacation but posts will appear magically every day, by me or another cool blogger. An autumn meditation Little (and big) hints of fall remind us that the year...

Off to Sicily!

September 29, 2014
We are off to our homeland--Sicily--  today to reconnect with our roots. My doctor insists that my wonky ear drum will not blow out on the flights and I chose to...

How to be fabulous

September 28, 2014
I love drag queens. What I like about them is that they are unabashedly fabulous. Sequinned gowns, big hair, dramatic make-up--they embrace their fabulosity...

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